New SMBTA team member Nanuk Krinner has volunteered to create a QT-based instance of the smbtamonitor program. A bit more discussion, also with Stefan (aka Hettich), revealed that the best way to not let die the ncurses based monitor is to make it KISS as possible.
Therefore here is the idea: create a base networking driver, which is as simple as possible. Output : number of read and written bytes on occasion (when a VFS transfer actually happens). Little thinking brought me to the idea that this is essentially already existing: rrddriver. So we created a new branch as a fork of the devel branch on github ( origin/devel-qt-smbtamonitor ) where Nanuk will develop the QT port and also the minimum driver, based on rrddriver. The minimum driver will allow us to write absolutely dumb front-ends that have nothing more to do than to display the data. The current code should already build a binary called smbtamonitor-gen. The frontends shall then be called smbtamonitor-qt or smbtamonitor-gtk or smbtamonitor-curses or what ever.